Accessibility Organization for Afghan Disabled (AOAD) is an Afghan non-profit organization it is mission statement is to support people with disabilities by promoting their humanitarians, political and social rights and providing various services for inclusion in the society and family.
History and Legal Status: AOAD was first founded through a small grant project of the ABILIS Foundation of Finland for physical accessibility, and building-Ramps constructions in the schools in Kabul in 2007. Before this AOAD was working as an informal common social platform for Persons with Disabilities (PWD), who were working as volunteers for their rights and recognition and full participation.
Established in May 2007 and based in Kabul-Afghanistan, Accessibility Organization for Afghan Disabled (AOAD) is a non-governmental, non-profit and non-political organization, formed by Persons with Disabilities (PWD) and working for Persons with Disabilities, their direct family members, women rights, and other vulnerable and segregated groups, as peer-support and disability advocacy organization. Under Registration number No.956, AOAD is registered with the Ministry of Economy of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. AOAD promotes disability rights and inclusion in line with the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs 2015-2030). We are now serving as an umbrella organization for the traditional rural Disabled Person Organizations (DOPs) which were instrumental in the creation of AOAD as a formal disability organization.
AOAD conducted its board members meeting for the year 2023 at Main Office Kabul, AOAD has achieved the result more than expected and planned during past years. As result of extremely efforts and honesty, Today AOAD has 479 employees in different provinces of Afghanistan, AOAD has strong commitment to improve and enhance the quality of services more in Physical Rehabilitation, Physical Accessibility, Health Section, inclusive Education, Vocational Training for Persons with Disabilities through Afghanistan.
AOAD Arzan Qimat center provide related Physical Rehabilitation services for the victim of war, conflict, ERW, and People with Disabilities under PM/WRA Department of State-funded project which is in the moment of Implementing in Kabul-Both Khak district and the implementer is...
AOAD Arzan Qimat center
provide related Physical Rehabilitation services for the victim of war, conflict, ERW and People
with Disabilities under PM/WRA Department of State funded project which is in the moment of
Implementing in Kabul-Both Khak district and the implementer is Accessibility Organization for
Afghan Disabled (AOAD)...
Accessibility Organization for Afghan Disabled (AOAD) with the financial assistance of (PM/WRA) for the 4th time is able to provide vocational training for (120) persons with disabilities in the field of repairing mobile phones & general electrician and also enrolled (80) disabled women in professional tailoring.
AOAD-Zabul Physical rehabilitation center provided 142 physical rehabilitation-related services for males and 45 same services for female victims of war and people with disability Under UNMAS-funded Victim Assistance Services Project in Zabul, During...
AOAD-Paktika Physical rehabilitation center provided 56 physical rehabilitation-related services for victims of war and people with disability Under the PMWRA-funded Victim Assistance Services Project in Paktika, During this period the team produced new prosthetic and orthotic devices and also repaired P&O devices, beside of that successfully completed physiotherapy sessions for referrals of the center and the team also had...
AOAD-Arzan Qimat center provides related Physical Rehabilitation services for the War Victims and People with Disabilities under the PM/WRA Department of State, a funded project which is in the moment of Implementing in Kabul-Both Khak area and the implementer is Accessibility Organization for Afghan Disabled (AOAD)...
AOAD-Zabul Physical
rehabilitation center provided 213 physical rehabilitation related services for victims of war and
people with disability Under UNMAS funded Victim Assistance Services Project in Zabul, During
this period the team produced 11 new prosthetic and orthotic devices and also repaired 14
more P&O devices...
Accessibility Organization for Afghan Disabled (AOAD) has been celebrated the 3rd December International Day of Persons with Disabilities in Herat province, this event has been funded by International Rescue Committee (IRC), all the participant of this program were from (government officials, National and international NGO and Disabled people organization DPO/CSO representative ) as they mentioned during their speech with this slogan “Disability is not inability but limitation” and they promised to remove the barriers and work hard to make save environment for the person with disabilities.
AOAD-Kabul Physical rehabilitation center provided 211 physical rehabilitation-related services for victims of war and people with disability Under (PMWRA) funded Victim Assistance Services Project in Kabul, the team produced and repaired 18 orthotic & prosthetic devices and also successfully completed...
AOAD-Paktika physical rehabilitation center provided 94 physical rehabilitation-related services for victims of war and people with disability under (PMWRA) the funded...
During the weekly reporting period (17 to 23 NOV-022) AOAD-Zabul Physical rehabilitation center provided 93 physical rehabilitation-related services...
Paktia 13th of October, 2022: As part of the AOAD BACEDA/EU project, our Paktia office conducted two days of disability rights and awareness training for...
AOAD started Community Mobilization & Awareness on 23rd October 2022 which successfully ended on 13th November 2022 in all 90 villages for its “In-Kind Poultry Assistance Packages in Injil & Guzara Districts of Herat...
Last week AOAD (Botkhak Center) have provided services for (52) persons with disability in physical rehabilitation center including P&O services, Physiotherapy services...
AOAD-Zabul Mobile Rehabilitation Unit had an outreach program to the “Shinky” district of the province on 09-NOV-022 to provide physical rehabilitation services for...
PLW is the acronym for Provincial Learning Workshop and this event is conducted once a year. The main purpose of PLW is cooperation between the relevant directorates...
As part of AOAD local initiative, disability awareness and advocacy compaign, AOAD provincial office in Paktia province conducted Provincial Learning Workshop (PLW), participated by...
As part of AOAD dasbility rights and awareness complain, AOAD Paktia office conducted a one-day Disability Stakeholders Coordination Group joint workshop,...
AOAD regional office Patktia conducted a Media Roundtable for the promotion of the rights of people with disabilities where local elders, journalists, teachers، social trainers and...
Based on the OCHA/FSAC cluster's latest response packages, 1040 poor and food-insecure families will be supported through this project...
AOAD has finished the construction of a modern Washroom with Ramp and pathway for the person with disability at Mariam Girls High School which is funded by (PM/WRA), located in Kabul District #10...
I am happy to share and celebrate AOAD’s success, jointly, with our bilateral donors, national and International partners, communities and the people with disabilities, who brought visible changes and equalities differences in their lives and move onwards with great hope, zeal and enthusiasm towards a sustainable and enduring social and economic wellbeing and addressing their rights as leaders. Definitely AOAD’s 2020 was a small step towards national rehabilitation and development agenda, but stimulated big hope among our target communities for better future, which in turn reflect our programmatic efficiency and effectiveness during the decade.
Our passion has always been to see people living with disabilities are included in mainstream life, have full and equal rights, and everyone has the best opportunity for health, well-being, education, physical rehabilitation skill development and empowerment. During 2020 I had the honor to meet so many beneficiaries mostly persons with disabilities included in AOAD projects of Skill Training, Job-creation, Physical Rehabilitations, Foods distributions, Clothes distributions and community mobilization for self-help.
The Global Pandemic of COVID-19, was a hot-shock in the 2020, which imposed a national level catastrophe for Afghanistan resulting into lockdowns, road closers, increasing conflicts, and also shortage of the funding. But thanks to the International community and donor’s solidarity who continued their financial contributions for AOAD and thanks to AOAD’s front-liners who kept their work without any lockdown and reached to the needy people, particularly, in the hard-to-reach areas.
Taking this opportunity let me present my hearty thanks and gratitude to the committed and courageous AOAD staff who, throughout 2020, uninterruptedly continued the operations, despite countrywide lockdown and life-threatening risk of COVID-19. Let me wish you all to have a safe, healthy and successful 2021, with full peace and prosperity in Afghanistan and rest of the world.
Protection, Equal Rights, Dignity, Inclusion, and Prosperity for persons with disability
To promote dignity and quality of life of Persons with Disabilities through provision of capacity, facilities,
services, and access to mainstream livelihood, in a sustainable manner.
Strengthening Civil society organization working in disability to defend and fulfil the rights of people with mental and physical disabilities
To enable the children with disabilities (Boys and Girls) to have a freedom of access to education, understand their rights as functioning citizens of Afghanistan as no one living behind
To create and build national and local capacity and mechanism for the support and provision of disability and rehabilitation services in the emergency situation within or outside the general healthcare services in the Country to prevent avoidable long-term disability and facilitate on time physical rehabilitation for the war and manmade disaster victims in the targeted provinces.